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The Dutch consumer watchdog on Monday levied a 10th weekly fine against Apple for failure to comply with an order to make it possible for dating app providers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods.

Jokes on Instagram and Tik Tok continue to affect young people, experts say - while warning over the dangers of labelling as anti-vaxxers those who are vaccine hesitant.

Google already faced a similar lawsuit from Arizona, where a judge cast doubt on the state's arguments.

Is the Bitcoin hype of the past few years hitting a wall of reality? Here's what the charts say

Plan would block sale-and-leaseback wiring deals and exclusive revenue sharing.

If confirmed, the attack would be one of the first times ransomware has been used this way.

There's still a long way to fall

The social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit went down on Monday night, according to users in multiple countries, but the issues were resolved in about an hour. The problems began just before 7 p.m. New York time on Monday when users reported…

The regime is drafting a law in an attempt to stamp out online activism and anti-junta discussions.

The impact could offer scientists a peek at the selenology of the Moon.

Google will soon block ad targeting based on the age, gender or interests of people under 18, as the tech giant faces scrutiny over targeted advertisements

As cryptocurrency investors reel from the sharp sell-off in bitcoin and other digital currencies, some fear the worst is yet to come.

Nvidia is "quietly" preparing to abandon its $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, Bloomberg News reports.

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A cyber security student has shown Apple how hacking its Mac webcams can then also leave devices fully open to hackers, earning him $100,500 from the company's bug bounty program.

A study among teenage TikTok users found that those who showed addictive tendencies toward the platform performed worse when recalling number sequences. The findings, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, further…

Washington DC and Texas are among four states taking legal action against the technology giant.

Reddit – a peer to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter – is an outlier, in that it operates on the most formidable recipes today to spread hate speech, demean and derogate people: remain unnoticed and run unchecked.

The company is scrapping another plan that would have blocked so-called cookies after privacy groups and regulators complained that Google needed to do more to ensure privacy.

Susan Wojcicki also claims the dislike count wasn't always useful in determining what to watch.